The “Necessity is the Mother of Un-Invention” Bureau

Daniel flipped up the plastic protective cover exposing the key pad underneath. He quickly punched in the numbers, “01-01-2324”

April looked over at the display above the keypad which repeated the numbers Daniel had typed in. ”Are you sure?” she asked.

“No,” Daniel answered solemnly, “but we have to start somewhere, or sometime rather.”

He closed the protective cover and turned his chair toward the front of the craft where the main display came to life, also repeating the same number he had typed in. Below the number a countdown commenced. “One minute and counting.” he intoned.

“I’ve heard of reverse engineering but this, this seems improbable at best.” April averred ominously.

“Well, you have 50 seconds to decide if we should abort.” Daniel countered.

“It’s just that, time is delicate.” She pursued.

“Yes, but we are not going backwards, we are going forwards, so, technically what we are doing has already happened.” Daniel shrugged.

April continued, “I know. but going forward to prevent something that hasn’t happened.”

“That we know of.” Daniel inserted.

“Something that hasn’t happened, that we know of, seems dangerous,” April concluded.

“Twenty seconds.” Daniel opened a plastic cover over an internally lit red plunger which flashed every other second. ”There is the abort button.”

April considered it and then receded. ”No, it’s worth trying.”

“Necessity is the mother of Un-invention.” Daniel stated.

April reports, “Yes, it is. We are going forward to prevent others from coming back. Ten Seconds.”

Daniel closed the plastic cover over the abort plunger and nodded at April.

April returned the nod and turned toward the front of the craft, “Un-inventing time travel in three, two, one.”

The world around Daniel and April blurred out of existence.

The end.